Capital Punishment U.K. - Contents Page

New for February 2010 : Dennis Howard and the Homicide Act of 1957

Overview of capital punishment worldwide in 2009

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Individual cases

(chronological)

Capital punishment in Britain.

Catherine Hayes

History of the death penalty in Britain

Complete listings of British executions

Sarah Malcolm

The history of judicial hanging in Britain

England & Wales - 1900 - 1931 & 1932 - 1964

Jenny Diver

Timeline of British capital punishment

England & Wales 1868 - 1899 & 1837 - 1868

Elizabeth Harrard

British hangmen 1850 - 1964 & 1800 - 1964

England & Wales 1800 - 1827 & 1827 -1836

Mary Blandy

Abolition of capital punishment in Britain

England & Wales 1735 – 1799 by circuit

Elizabeth Jeffries

The reprieve system

Scotland 1800 -1899 & 1900 - 1963

Earl Ferrers

The female executed 1735 - 1799

Northern Ireland 1900 -1961

Elizabeth Brownrigg

The female hanged 1800 - 1868  Pt. 2 1868 - 1955

Southern Irish executions 1900 - 1954 & 1835 - 1899

Mary Jones

Focus on the execution of children & juveniles

Channel Islands and Isle of Man executions

Ann Beddingfield

Arguments for and against capital punishment (UK)

The 18th & 19th century index page

Charlotte Gardiner

Thoughts on crime and punishment

Thoughts on Human Rights

Elizabeth Taylor

 

 

Elizabeth Sedgwick

The death penalty in the USA.

Phoebe Harris

Hanged by the neck until you are dead

Billy Bailey

Sarah Lloyd

Lethal Injection

Velma Barfeld, Karla Faye Tucker, Christina Riggs

Ann Hurle

The electric chair

Toni Jo Henry, Nicholas Ingram & Judi Buenoano

Eliza Fenning

The gas chamber

Barbara Graham & Robert Alton Harris

Elizabeth Fricker

Firing squad - Gary Gilmore & John Taylor

US execution update updated monthly

Melinda Mapson

The American female hanged

Arguments for and against capital punishment (USA)

Infanticide (4 cases)

American female executions 1900 - 2010

 

John Thurtell

 

 

Jane Scott

Execution methods

Bel Mc’Menemy

Present day and modern methods

From times gone by

Helen Blackwood

The process of judicial hanging

Burning at the stake

Sarah Dazley

Shooting and the firing squad

The garrotte

Elizabeth Browne

Lethal Injection

The guillotine

Maria Manning

The electric chair

Hanging, drawing and quartering

Ann Lawrence

The gas chamber

The Gallows Galleries

Frances Kidder

Beheading

The Gallows Galleries 2

Elizabeth Pearson

 

Frances Stewart

Histories of some English “hanging” prisons & Places of execution

Mary Lefley

York castle prison

Newgate prison 1800 - 1902

Selina Wadge

Armley prison Leeds

Pentonville prison

Kate Webster

Wandsworth prison

Holloway prison

Mary Wheeler

Durham prison

Maidstone prison

Baby Farmers

Strangeways prison (Manchester)

Shepton Mallet prison

Louise Masset

Walton prison (Liverpool)

Lancaster Castle

Emily Swann

Gloucester prison

Horsemonger Lane Gaol in Surrey

Rhoda Willis

Places of execution 18/19th centuries

Places of execution in the 20th century

Edith Thompson

 

 

Susan Newell

Capital punishment worldwide

Louie Calvert

Overview of the death penalty in 2009

Executions worldwide updated monthly

Charlotte Bryant

Female executions 1990 - 2010

Female hangings worldwide 1988 - 2010

James McNicol

Abolition of the death penalty in Europe

Focus on the execution of women in Iran

Derek Bentley

The situation in Commonwealth countries

Focus on the execution of children in Iran

Styllou Christofi

Canadian hangings 1867 - 1962

Focus on executions in Kuwait

Ruth Ellis

Nazi female war criminals

Spanish executions 1812 - 1975

Vivian Teed

Women executed by the Nazis

Australian executions 1880 - 1967

 

Some cases from around the world

 

Irma Grese

Juana Borman

 

Jean Lee

 

 

Sandra Smith

Mariette Bosch

 

Angel Pui Peng

Flor Contemplacion

 

Mona Fandey

John Scripps

 

Links, about the author and bibliography

 

Links to other interesting sites

About the author and bibliography